[plt-scheme] package management issues

From: MJ Ray (markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 4 07:10:16 EST 2003

Neil W. Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> MJ Ray <markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes at 00:39 04-Mar-2003 GMT:
>> It still needs to play nice with the system's own packaging.  So, do
> 
> It only needs to play nice to the extent that it doesn't create files
> where the host platform's package system wants to create files.

...and it needs to tell the native system what it did, so that the
latest compatible version of the package is used and not "hidden" by
an old/new one installed by the other system.

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